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Re: WOT: "Correct" English



On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:35:13PM -0500, Allister MacLeod wrote:

> > > and "grey" over "gray".
> > That's regional?  My experience has been that grey tends to be used more for
> > lighter and/or cooler shades, and gray for darker and/or warmer shades.
> > For the ensuing gray/grey jihad, please try to keep it on topic by 
> > discussing
> > it in terms of how it (and white and black) looks in your mutt terminal.
> 
> Grey is a man's name.  I often drink Earl Grey tea when using mutt.

Grey isn't the correct way to spell the color name?  Oh. . .

> P.S. to those who might pay for their net access by the byte or
> kilobyte, this thread wouldn't even exist if you just caved in and
> spelled like all us mindless USAians.

Those who pay for their net access by anything less than the exabyte or
petabyte would be rather wise to filter out this entire list and read
the online archives instead - as much as they suck.

Inadvertently yours,
 - Dave

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